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So here I am, posting from my Mac IIci. Quite a process to do so. Specs: Motorola 68030@25 MHz, bypassed and running a Sonnet card with an 040 at 40 MHz.. (stupidly, the use the PDS slot disables the onboard 68882 FPU, so I want to replace the LC040@40 with a real 040@40 so I can run A/UX, which is way better than Mac OS (7.5.5 right now). 20.5 MB RAM (odd mix of 'Goldstar', 'Samsung', and what I call "Tri-Wing" (it has that sort of logo) Asante 10MBps Ethernet card, connected to my WiFi network via crossover to my PC and a network bridge 800 MB-ish SCSI1 hard disk External CDROM Pictures! New goals are ... - Playing OGGs and MP3s - Playing MP4 videos - Emulating the most powerful console I can and seeing if I can make it work with my Gravis ADB gamepad and joystick - Seeing if there's still an Avara server up - Trying out some of my old programs I wrote in high school Live long and process. General Tofu fucked around with this message at 10:11 on Dec 19, 2015 |
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create a web rendering proxy that *renders pages as images + create an associative image map so you can browse the modern web properly
OldAlias fucked around with this message at 03:21 on Dec 19, 2015 |
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welcome to the pos, friend!
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 03:14 |
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ideologically correct posting
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 03:20 |
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did yearbook production on a iici, they own
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 03:20 |
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install BeOS.
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 03:52 |
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Lol @ any 90s Mac, just lol
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 04:08 |
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Your os? Guess what buddy
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 04:09 |
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NICE !! get yourself 128 MB, your IIci will take forever to cold boot due to the RAM check but you'll be livin large I have a Display Card 8•24 GC in my IIci, for maximal graphics performance
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 04:15 |
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posting in a good thread
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 04:41 |
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maniacdevnull posted:Lol @ any 90s Mac, just lol I miss my ibook
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 04:43 |
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also icab
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 04:43 |
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which accelerator are you running? I've got a quadra 700 with some kinda crazy rear end 040/DSP combo card to accelerate photoshop. when I was testing it I gave myself a blister because I accidentally touched the card's heatsink while it was running a bezier lines screensaver
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 09:49 |
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craisins posted:install BeOS. BeOS is for PowerPC nice Mac OP
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 10:15 |
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atomicthumbs posted:which accelerator are you running? I've got a quadra 700 with some kinda crazy rear end 040/DSP combo card to accelerate photoshop. when I was testing it I gave myself a blister because I accidentally touched the card's heatsink while it was running a bezier lines screensaver Mine is a Sonnet "Presto" 040, with the 68LC040 soldered down. I wanna swap it for a 'real' 68040 with the FPU and overclock it, I fig. I can get close to 50 MHz. I took a 40 MHz '040 to 48 MHz before and it was totally stable-- I just had to make sure it got good airflow to the sink. Re: your card -- Yikes; I've never heard of that sort of card. Some kind of combo PDS/NuBus device? Definitely news to me. But I was thinking I want to get a NuBus video card that has a lot more VRAM and QuickDraw acceleration as it'll speed the machine up and let me do, probably, 1024x768 at 16bpp or higher. Random performance numbers as reported by a benchmarking tool I had lying around. Not sure what scale it uses, but I think '100' is some sort of Quadra? Base IIci: CPU: 29.6, Video: 35.1, FPU: 16.9. IIci with Presto LC040 card: CPU: 113, Video: 93.4, FPU: 3.6. You can see why I want to get my FPU on. But the performance boost is ridiculous! ~Coxy posted:nice Mac OP eschaton posted:get yourself 128 MB
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 10:28 |
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maniacdevnull posted:Lol @ any 90s Mac, just lol
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 10:35 |
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maniacdevnull posted:Your os? Guess what buddy
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 10:36 |
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akadajet posted:welcome to the pos, friend! Thank you very much.
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 10:43 |
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smythe would u rather be using windows 3.1, the premiere dos shell? bc that is your other option here
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 10:55 |
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can i run ultima underworld on it? no? then what's the point?
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 12:31 |
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Did you have to replace any capacitors or does this thing miraculously still work on its own? Almost all the macs from the 80s and 90s have rotten caps that cause them to fail over time I wish i still had my Performa 630, the slowest mac I own right now is a Powermac 5500
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 12:40 |
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error1 posted:Did you have to replace any capacitors or does this thing miraculously still work on its own? 24 years and ticking, apparently. At least I know what to do if it exhibits symptoms!
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 13:50 |
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General Tofu posted:New goals are ... you might have barely enough grunt to do the compressed sound files maybe an mp4 video that was super low-res? don't forget to hit up IRC from that thing!
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 20:31 |
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i have to make my olivetti 486 work again and install windows for workgroups on it
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 20:51 |
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the Amiga people (of course) have implemented an MP3 engine for 68K, MpegDec uses it and should play an MP3 on your IIci with low quality for IRC you could download an older version of Snak, that should run nicely on your IIci
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# ? Dec 19, 2015 21:32 |
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Got IRC rolling. Does YOSPOS have its own channel? If so, where? I'll hop in there for a while. As for emulation-- GB is pretty darn good. NES emulation is a no-go-- I'll post a video explaining why later. I want to see how Game Gear or SMS emulation goes- if a 68k emulator exists. These programs are tricky to find! Here's the GB emulation experience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2XcV-irpNg Sorry for lack of tripod.
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General Tofu posted:Got IRC rolling. Does YOSPOS have its own channel? If so, where? I'll hop in there for a while.
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# ? Dec 20, 2015 03:26 |
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a/ux supremacy
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# ? Dec 20, 2015 04:38 |
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I honestly never tried emulating anything on a 68k Mac beyond Apple II stuff. There's a program called simply "][e" that works pretty good and (I think?) gets full framerate on an 040-25. By the time NES emulation got decent I was on PPC.
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# ? Dec 20, 2015 06:40 |
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maniacdevnull posted:Lol @ any 90s Mac, just lol
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General Tofu posted:Got IRC rolling. Does YOSPOS have its own channel? If so, where? I'll hop in there for a while. #yospos on synirc
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# ? Dec 20, 2015 07:05 |
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Multitasking stress test! This was fun! Pardon the useless messages in the IRC channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcZnWk27akc
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# ? Dec 21, 2015 11:04 |
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which dope games r u gonna play on this beast, op
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# ? Dec 21, 2015 11:23 |
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I was thinking of starting my own Avara server, getting my Wolf3D and Doom on, listening to Mike Dawson's awful voice acting in Dark Seed ... Oregon Trail and Word Munchers are always fun, and it looks like now I've got the whole GB library to play with. Sweet. I did try Game Gear/SMS but it's a little sluggish. I wanna see how it does at 50 MHz, with an FPU, and with a discrete video card. Given how tricky this stuff is to get to work, I'll quote a 1980s platitude: "The fun is in the challenge (simon). Take the simon challenge (simon.)"
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General Tofu posted:Multitasking stress test! This was fun! Pardon the useless messages in the IRC channel. sweet vid, but it's yospos not yaspas.
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# ? Dec 21, 2015 14:50 |
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why is nes emulation a no go op?
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A Pinball Wizard posted:why is nes emulation a no go op? The main issues: - It runs at a very low speed, below playable framerates (so far, I wanna try it with a true 040 at a higher clock, with Quickdraw acceleration). I did get it playable but you have to run it at about half-speed or deal with choppy visuals. I bet further upgrades will make this a lot better. - The sound is completely batshit insanity (see the following video-- that THING you hear? Is the Duck Tales theme song. On some planet, anyway .. - The controls can't be changed (I'll work on this, I bet I can un-F the controls) and are absolutely bizarre. You'll notice in the video I have to put my hands in this bizarre and incredibly unnatural position to play. See this video-- it's a reaction video of me trying out Duck Tales in the MacFCEU emulator for the first time, using a Gravis gamepad. You can hear what I mean about the audio. Please don't comment on the rash on my right arm. It's an allergic reaction that comes and goes, and I can't really do anything about it. Sorry. Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhCJC0rPGJY (I recommend turning on the CC if you have trouble hearing me. I wrote in captions.) In the future, I want to pipe the Mac video/audio to my PC via a capture device and have a picture-in-picture and a reaction shot all in one. That seems to be what all the cool kids do. akadajet posted:sweet vid, but it's yospos not yaspas. Thanks! Yoss-poss? Yose-pose? I didn't notice it originally but yeah, it does sound like I was saying 'a', not 'o'. General Tofu fucked around with this message at 17:06 on Dec 21, 2015 |
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Here's an upgrade for ya: buy a pc
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Dolomite posted:did yearbook production on a iici, they own love that startup chime
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90s retrocomputing enthusiast checking in
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